Word: risking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sectors we do all our work at nigh without lights and at a fair risk. It's all chance, anyway. If the Germans land a shell in the dark on general theory that something ought to be on that road, at that spot, at that time, and you are there-you get it. That's all. But there are lots of roads and they are long Some cross-roads get special attention right along, and that brings me to tell you of an incident that happened the other night...
...Professional coaches, of course, are a necessity in nearly every field of amateur endeavor, and the Pierian is no exception to this. It should by all means have a professional coach, but on the concert platform it should be led by one of its own members, even at the risk of a less finished performance...
About 50 Freshmen have not yet had their photographs taken for the Red Book. The Photograph and Cut Committee is anxious that all of these be finished by May 1. If these men do not attend to this matter at once, they risk omission from the Red Book...
...following Seniors risk omission from the Album unless they arrange for sittings at Notman's today or tomorrow: R. C. Bacon, H. B. Bennison, M. S. Bowman, L. Brokenshire, L. Butler, J. Cohen, J. D. Conig, E. W. Cook, J. V. Cummins, W. L. Downes, E. T. Drake, W. W. Everett, E. S. Fuller, B. M. Fullerton, W. H. Glennon, B. Grosbayn, R. Holland, C. J. Kavenaugh, M. Liptzer, E. M. Lynch, H. McGregor-Norman, W. J. Mahoney, E. N. Marcus, W. R. Miller, F. B. Perkins, I. Perry, S. B. Potter, W. T. Powers, J. S. Reeve...
...craving for greater reality. The college student is a man in growth without a man's responsibilities; he needs an ingredient in his life of something beside books in order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute...